ADVANCE SOLICIT NOW IN FULL COLOR! A brand-new look for multiple Eisner-winner ERIC SHANOWER’s hard-hitting version of the Trojan War. The politics and passion get turned up to eleven when colorist JOHN DALLAIRE injects his vibrant palette into the enduring epic. Helen runs off with Paris. Agamemnon declares war on Troy. Achilles hides among girls. Odysseus goes mad. And that’s only the beginning. Collects AGE OF BRONZE #1-9 COMPARISON TITLES If you like the epic adaptations of García and Rubín's BEOWULF and Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology, you’ll love this historical adaptation of Troy in AGE OF BRONZE.

END OF STORY ARC CHAPTER FIVE Image’s hit new ongoing series wraps the first arc with a bang. Jack’s got a briefcase of secrets to deliver, some hard men on his tail, and his past coming back to haunt him. If you like future noir spy stories with accents of romance, comedy, and revenge, the end of our first arc is for you.

Frank is stuck in the middle as Zelda’s world deals with the aftermath of the disaster she caused... a world that finally has to address how profoundly dangerous Zelda Barrett is. Collects BLACK CLOUD #6-10

END OF STORY ARC “LATER THAN YOU THINK,” Conclusion Grant and Sara McKay stand at the center of the Onion, finding not heaven or hell, damnation or redemption, but a truth far grander and stranger than even the Dimensionauts could ever have imagined.

MINISERIES PREMIERE Psychological terror, the undead, and a supernaturally bitter cold come together in this spine-tingling new series from CULLEN BUNN (REGRESSION, Harrow County) and MARK TORRES (Zombies vs. Robots: Undercity). 10 years ago, Dan Kerr turned his back on his wife and unborn daughter. Now, both mother and child have gone missing, and Dan must face cosmic terrors to find them again. He soon finds that ghosts stir when his estranged daughter is near. And as the dead grow restless, the cold deepens... COMPARISON TITLES If you like the deeply personal supernatural revenge story in J. Michael Straczynski’s Ten Grand, you’ll love COLD SPOTS.

NEW STORY ARC Red stumbles onto a group of women putting the men who attacked them on trial. As she watches them forgive their attackers, she is aghast. And then one mentions her sister... Questions will be answered and origins will be revealed in the next chapter of this cult favorite.

SERIES PREMIERE Ten minutes in the future, the world runs on an economy of job shares and apps, including Reapr: a crowdfunding platform to fund assassinations. Charlie Ellison leads a quiet, normal life until she’s suddenly targeted by a million-dollar Reapr campaign. Hunted by all of Los Angeles, Charlie hires Vita, the lowest-rated bodyguard on the Dfend app. As the campaign picks up speed, they’ll have to figure out who wants Charlie dead before the campaign’s 30 days—or their lives—are over. From Eisner-nominated writer CHRISTOPHER SEBELA (Heartthrob, We(l)come Back, Harley Quinn), RO STEIN & TED BRANDT (Captain Marvel, Raven: The Pirate Princess), TRIONA FARRELL (Runaways, Mech Cadet Yu), and CARDINAL RAE (BINGO LOVE, ROSE). COMPARISON TITLES If the near-future implications of social media and technology in Semahn and Corona’s NO. 1 WITH A BULLET had you on the edge of your seat, you’ll love CROWDED.

Blackstone is ready to explode! Piotr has beaten every thug, mercenary, and soldier Petropinnacle has sent to kill him. Now, the city’s true ruler steps up to show this tired KGB dog what true power is.

SEE: Sizzajee’s sinister sorcerers sweating their way through the sunny, sultry, summertime season back in the Hole World. SEE: a hogtaur in a Speedo! SEE: an invisible wizard with a sunburn! SEE: such sights! Such glorious sights! JOIN US.

NEW STORY ARC With the world still reeling from the sudden blackout of all networked technology, Stryker, Aphrodite, and Velocity are sent to find a deadly bounty hunter that could help them bring order to the chaos… but this bounty hunter has a secret that might stop CYBER FORCE before it starts.

Cyberforce has nearly claimed Jackie Estacado’s body from a ruthless collector who wants the power of the darkness for himself, but Morgan Stryker and his team must also deal with a man from his past who wants nothing more than Morgan and Velocity’s death… and none of them are prepared for what The Darkness wants from them all. Collects part two of the Line Webtoon CYBER FORCE webcomic.

Marcus and Maria have resurfaced, and with them a whole ocean of bad blood crashes on the shores. Shabnam and the Student Council are out to put Marcus and Maria in the grave for good this time, Saya’s maniacal brother Kenji stokes the flames of hatred, and in the shadows of those flames looms Headmaster Lin, waiting to reward whoever is left standing with a place by his side—or a sharp knife in the back. It’s 1989 and the era is drawing to a close, but it’s going to take as many poor bastards with it into oblivion as it can. Collects DEADLY CLASS #32-35

ADVANCE SOLICIT Meet Lou Rossi, a Generation X slacker who’s out of step with the rave culture of Miami, 1990. He’s a freelance newspaper artist, an aspiring author, a 21-year-old virgin... and suddenly an amateur detective. His humdrum life takes a turn when he meets—and quickly falls in love with—the young and beautiful Janet Laughton. But when she suddenly vanishes, leaving only a cryptic note behind, Lou will have to pull out all the stops to track her down. Collects DRY COUNTY #1-5 COMPARISON TITLES If you liked DARK CORRIDOR, you’ll love DRY COUNTY!

NEW STORY ARC In a world where sunlight is deadly, former solar engineer David Baxter rushes to escape back into New York City before sunrise, while Cielo Brandt, daughter of a corrupt solar tycoon, searches for the mysterious Scientist responsible for an immunity to dangerous sunlight—a Scientist with his own plans in mind.

Amelia Earhart and her Korvathian ally, Cort, embark on an epic journey in search of a mythical portal that might connect to Earth. Along the way, they encounter new friends, make new enemies, and uncover long-buried secrets. And just how does D. B. Cooper fit into all of this? Collects ELSEWHERE #5-8

Ezekiel Jenkins just wants to forget his past. Unfortunately, now that he’s returned to his family’s farm, that’s going to be damn near impossible. And if dealing with his own demons isn’t enough, today he’ll be dealing with a few of his father’s as well.

ADVANCE SOLICIT Following a genocidal amalgamation campaign by the terrifying Tetaldian robot empire, Heath Huston finds himself as the sole surviving human in the universe. Now the prime target of the robotic hordes and their sinister co-conspirators, Heath sets off to uncover the secret history of the Tetaldians—and a chance to set things straight. The stakes couldn’t be higher as the disgraced Fear Agent is presented with one final shot at the redemption he’s ached for his entire drunken life. Don’t miss the grand finale of the pulp sci-fi smash hit. Collects FEAR AGENT #22-32

The dark secrets behind The Bowl simmer as Xoo gets into hot water. Everything’s rotten from the inside out and no one is safe. PLUS: every issue includes exclusive bonus materials by the creative team and famed author of Ingredient: Unveiling the Essential Elements of Food, Ali Bouzari!

END OF STORY ARC A 2018 Eisner Award nominee for Best Writer, JEFF LEMIRE! “THE BLACK BARN,” Conclusion Father Fred enters The Black Barn on a daring rescue attempt but nothing can prepare him for the horrors within. Meanwhile Norton and Angie delve deeper into Norton’s past and zero in on the secrets of the Barn.

SERIES PREMIERE HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comic book racket. Artists and writers, con men and clowns, ganefs and gangsters, create the foundations of today’s biggest entertainment business—or at least the tail that wags the dog. Some of it really happened, and the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty... ... although in the end, everyone was guilty of something. COMPARISON TITLES If you like the crazy behind-the-curtain candor of The Wolf of Wall Street and Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, you’ll love HEY KIDS! COMICS!

Written by JEFF LEMIRE, a 2018 Eisner Award nominee for Best Writer! Hit-Girl’s holed up in a cabin in the woods, nursing bear-trap wounds and recovering from a fall through the ice. But Billy Baker and his gang have found her hideout, and these local hunters can track anything in the snow. How many can Hit-Girl slay before the Mounties show up?

What started as a normal, everyday, child-sucked-into-a-magical-land-to-fulfill-an-inane-quest has changed Fairyland forever. In the continuation of SKOTTIE YOUNG’S saccharine fantasy-satire, Gertrude hands over the spotlight to Larry, Duncan Dragon, and some of Fairyland’s other supporting cast, misfits, and forgotten threats. Collects I HATE FAIRYLAND #16-20

GEM OF THE MONTH SERIES PREMIERE Poor Ryan DeLuca didn’t buy enough beer for his party, and while he was out on a beer run his idiot buddies busted out some mystical arcana and performed a summoning ceremony—a ceremony that summoned a giant monster from hell! Join multiple Eisner-winning writer JOHN LAYMAN (CHEW) and Eisner-nominated artist NICK PITARRA (THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS), along with soon-to-be-nominated-for-best-colorist MICHAEL GARLAND (THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS) for an eye-popping, face-melting, reality-defying, nonstop rush of pure adrenaline. COMPARISON TITLES If you like fullscreen monster movies like Godzilla and you watch Game of Thrones just for those glorious dragons, you’ll love LEVIATHAN!

9 x 6 landscape format Finally, the acclaimed Rueben Award-nominated webcomic is collected! Follow the timely and terrifying adventures of Lil’ Donnie, the worst president in the history of the United States of America. This collection contains the first year of antics of a truly motley crew of weirdos and degenerates as they work (HA!) to make our world a better place… for them! Get one while we still have a first amendment! Collects the first 125 LIL’ DONNIE comic strips COMPARISON TITLES If Sh*t My President Says—or really any @POTUS tweet nowadays—has you rolling on the floor laughing, then you’ll love LIL’ DONNIE!

END OF STORY ARC A 2018 Eisner Award nominee for Best New Series and Best Coloring by DAVE STEWART! The Book of Remaking has been opened and its spell cast; all of creation has been undone and all that is left is the great stillness of Emptiness... and Mardok. But something stirs in the dark. Something with over ten hours of battery life…

Desperation leads Kevin Matchstick to follow an elusive trail in the search for his missing family even as, undaunted, Magda and Hugo venture into the unknown in an attempt to escape their captors. Meanwhile, the Umbra Mother goes to extreme lengths to revitalize her dwindling power.

“DARK DWELLERS,” Part Two In the city beneath the city, Jack learns more of his past and his connection to Paradiso. Relationships are strained as revelations lead to distrust and Paradiso intervenes once more to save a seemingly inconsequential life.

GEM OF THE MONTH ADVANCE SOLICIT 8.07 x 10.83 trim size Perdy loves two things: sex and robbing banks—no particular order. After spending 15 years in Yuma prison, Perdy wastes no time in getting back to doing both. A lot has changed since Perdy’s been away, especially her looks, but that’s not gonna stop her from piecing together the biggest score of gold this side of the border. And if anyone gets in her way, they’ll be pushing up petunias. A new western series from Angoulême Award nominee, and international star, KICKLIY. COMPARISON TITLES If you like the artistic charm of Kyle Starks’ ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN and the wild, off-the-wall fun of Starks’ SEXCASTLE and Barbiere and Santos’ VIOLENT LOVE, you’ll love PERDY!

END OF STORY ARC For the first time ever, news cameras and human eyes see inside the Port of Earth as ESA Agents Rice and McIntyre confront a deadly assassin. But can they control their emotions and bring the alien to justice without threatening the stability of our deal with the alien Consortium?

ADVANCE SOLICIT Far from the border of colonized space, a newly discovered planet teems violently with strange psychic life and puzzling telekinetic ecology. Vep, a refugee raised away from her devastated home planet as an indentured citizen in a foreign colony, is taken by a private military firm to assist in settling the new planet. What awaits her will test the limits of her will as she grapples with the strange power the planet exerts over her... Collects PRISM STALKER #1-5 COMPARISON TITLES If you like Sailor Moon and Cronenberg-esque sci-fi, you’ll love PRISM STALKER!

A ghost from the past threatens to derail Rose’s desperate search for her companions and calls into question her worthiness to become a Guardian. While Thorne struggles to come to terms with Rose’s new knight protector, Drucilla’s magical collar compels him to commit an unthinkable act. Will’s commitment to the rebellion is tested with Ila’s capture and secrets long hidden are finally revealed in the dungeons of Ttereve. Collects ROSE #7-12

SERIES FINALE A 2018 Eisner Award nominee for Best New Series and Best Writer, JEFF LEMIRE! The critically acclaimed, multi-generational saga of the Pike family comes to its conclusion as the ghosts of the past catch up to them and point the Pike Family toward an unexpected future.

NEW STORY ARC With art by DAVID RUBÍN, a 2018 Eisner Award nominee for both Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team and Best Coloring! “THINGS REMOTE,” Part One Rathraq has discovered his immortal heart lies at the bottom of the Lake Kitchuron. Now he, Bobby, Timah, Cogan, and Del set sail to recover it.

NEW STORY ARC “RITES OF SEPARATION,” Part One (of Two) Dorma returns home from her adventures in the Dragon’s Maw to deliver the sad news of her brother’s passing to their parents. While preparing the burial rites for his journey to the afterlife, she must face the darkness of her ancestral home that she’s feared all her life.

Suzie and Jon have that special something—when they have sex, they freeze time and do crimes. Well—they HAD that special something. In the aftermath of what would appear to be a breakup, where do our two love-crazy time-freezing sex-having bank robbers go? REBOUND AHOY! Also everything gets more dangerous and complicated? But it's okay. Collects SEX CRIMINALS #21-25

With two of the men who abducted her carved off her list, Red’s hands are bloody again as she looks to take out the rest of the names responsible. But when she’s detoured into the heart of Portland’s corruption and comes face to face with her sister, Red will face some ugly truths about how far from home she really is and how much longer her list needs to be.

END OF STORY ARC “MY LOW-G LIFE,” Conclusion The pulse-pounding conclusion of our first arc! Everything comes to a head as Willa takes the fight to Barrow. And not everyone’s getting out of this one alive…

NEW STORY ARC Chapter 11: “MY SECOND DATE” While her friends have some concerns, Lottie just wants to take her relationship with Caroline to the next level—which is why she’s keeping it a complete secret!

When a postgraduate student discovers a way to unlock information hidden deep in our “junk DNA,” parts of bio-schematics and other pieces of baffling data are found. This discovery triggers the largest scientific initiative since the Manhattan Projects, with teams of scientists working to collect and collate this information. But will they find a stairway to heaven, or will they unleash something that will kill us all? COMPARISON TITLES If you like THINK TANK and TRANSHUMAN, you’ll love STAIRWAY!

What would you do for love? How far would you go for revenge? “SUNSHINE & ROSES” tells the story of a boy and a girl: how they fell in love and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimore underworld. There is no crime book remotely like STRAY BULLETS and with “SUNSHINE & ROSES,” the uncompromising, Eisner Award-winning team of DAVID AND MARIA LAPHAM craft a heist story like you never seen. Collects STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE & ROSES #9-16

On the outskirts of the forest, Feist’s men prepare to seize the castle, promising to rain death upon the defenders. Unaware of this peril, the court advisors search for clues to the origin of the mysterious Stranger.

With each wizard brutally murdered, Madame Albany comes another step closer to seizing the dark power of the Orichalcum as her own. The next kill on her list: Leonard Moonstone. Is her gruesome assassin powerful enough to destroy the leader of The Magic Order?

Cut off, on the run, and hunted by The Marshal, Nathan and Cross try to stay alive long enough to find Nathan’s lost memory and the key to stopping another world-ending attack. But they’ll have to survive each other first...

END OF STORY ARC A 2018 Eisner Award nominee for Best Continuing Series and Best Lettering by CLAYTON COWLES! “MOTHERING INVENTION,” Conclusion Well, it’s the end of the arc, in just about every way you could define those particular words.

ADVANCE SOLICIT Four stories of love and lust from comics’ coolest artists and writer ALEX de CAMPI! First, a demon prowls the 1978 New York disco scene in “OLD FLAMES,” drawn by KATIE SKELLY. Then, a curvy photographer’s assistant falls in love with someone way out of her league in “TWINKLE & THE STAR,” with art from ALEJANDRA GUTIÉRREZ. A spacefleet captain captures a most infuriating pirate in “INVINCIBLE HEART,” drawn by CARLA SPEED McNEIL. And a princess runs away with a dragon in “TREASURED,” featuring art by TRUNGLES. Plus steamy prose romance stories from awesome folks like MAGEN CUBED and VITA AYALA, and more comics shorts about love from MEREDITH McCLAREN, SARAH HORROCKS, MARGARET TRAUTH, and SARAH WINIFRED SEARLE. Collects TWISTED ROMANCE #1-4 COMPARISON TITLES If you like romantic anthologies like Love Actually and Golden Age romance stories, but also enjoy a dark edge, you’ll love TWISTED ROMANCE.

While Leslie’s life has just been turned upside down by THAT message, her best friend Trish goes on a hunt to discover what lies beneath her unnatural (and yet attractive) recurring dream. Oh, and who’s the mysterious hooded figure spying on her?

NEW STORY ARC “GOOD INTENTIONS,” Part One Breaking a demon’s stranglehold on New York City was only the beginning for Alex and Team Witchblade—now somebody much worse than a demon wants the Artifact, and they’ll do anything to get it.